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January 14, 2013

HRM in Context

HRM in Context1 Question 1: Critically evaluate the GE system of leadership development (GE’s Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO). What lessons can you and your organisation take from this approach?

Question 2: Critically Evaluate how the Leadership, Innovation and Growth (LIG) programme has helped GE manage change in its organisation, specifically with respect to leadership issues. What lessons can you and your organisation take from this approach?

Conclusion: Draw conclusions on the theory and its appropriateness to you and your organisation

Recommendations: Make recommendations on the theory and its appropriateness to you and your organisation.

– Please read through the attached work and edit it where possible and add in the following points where necessary.

**- Points to add in:
Question 1: – training and development – talent management – culture of the organisation

Question 2: – change management – SWOT analysis- centralised or decentralised system – culture – empowerment of leadership

March 8, 2012March 8, 2012

Financial Analysis of Vestas

This is a Danish company listed at the Copenhagen stock exchange

ASSIGNMENT TASK
Vestas is a Danish company listed at the Copenhagen stock exchange. From the company’s website:
“Vestas is the world leader in delivering Modern Energy. We have already installed over 39,000 wind turbines in 63 countries on five continents. In 2008, Vestas installed a new turbine every three hours worldwide, generating more than 60 million MWh a year, enough power to provide electricity for every household in a country the size of Spain with its population of 45 million. That is why Vestas is No. 1 in Modern Energy.” (http://www.vestas.com/en/about-vestas/profile.aspx, accessed 15/12/2009).

Information on the company’s operations is available from the company website:
http://www.vestas.com/en/.

Information on the company’s finances is available from
• the company website, by following the link to Investor Information
• the Thomson One Banker database, accessible through the Oxford Brookes University library web pages (in electronic databases; username = oxbrookes01@Oxford.ac.uk; Password = aaa; Username: not case sensitive; Password: case sensitive)
Share price data, charts and other technical information are available on uk.finance.yahoo.com or Thomson One Banker.

Required:
1. Discuss the market valuation of Vestas. To support your discussion:
• Estimate the Weighted Average Cost of Capital for the company.
• Develop values for the principal value drivers identified by Rappaport (1986) in his Shareholder Value Analysis model using reasonable assumptions and in the light of available information.
• Develop a Shareholder Value Analysis (SVA) model for Vestas using Excel and applying the value drivers you have developed.
• Use Excel to show the effect of changes in key assumptions in the model and discuss these.
• Discuss the difficulties in applying SVA in practice. [50 marks]
2. How might activity-based costing be expected to contribute to enhancing shareholder wealth? Provide a rationale for why you think a company such as Vestas might or might not make use of activity-based costing. [25 marks]
3. Comment on Vestas’ dividend policy in the context of financial theory. Link your discussion to your analysis in part one where appropriate. [25 marks]

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March 8, 2012

Enron and Ethics

Based on the movie Enron, please research additional information on Enron’s collapse.

Include the following topics as well as the views from various philosophers’, i.e., Kant, John Stuart Mill, Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, etc.

The document and presentation should include the following:
• Who were the whistle blowers?
• Were there trade secrets? If so, what were they?
• Was honesty exemplified?
• What was Enron’s’ virtues?
• Provide the Utilitarianism view as it pertains to Enron.
• Provide the Egoism view as it pertains to Enron.
• Was there justice?
• Were there property rights?
• What was the major conflict? Why was it a conflict and how was it resolved?
• Were there privacy Issues?
• Provide the Kantianism view as it pertains to Enron.

March 2, 2012

Business Website Critique

Review a business website of your choice and write up a summary outlining the strengths/weaknesses (5 each) of the website. Include in your summary a brief description of the company. Conclude with a minimum of 3 changes that the website could implement. Business website critiques should be no more than 2 pages total. Examples of websites include retail websites, company websites, and B2B/B2C/C2C websites.

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March 2, 2012March 2, 2012

Management Information System,

Consider the situation of a company that has two offices at physically separated sites. Suppose each office has a group of 15 computers.

If the two offices are retail art galleries, what is likely to be the most common type of interoffice communication? Given your answer, what type of WAN do you think is most appropriate?

Suppose the two offices are manufacturing sites that communicate via email and that regularly exchange large drawings and plans. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of the four WAN types for these offices? Under what circumstances would you recommend a leased-line WAN?

Suppose the two offices are the same as described in part b, but that in addition each has salespeople on the road who need to connect to the office computers. How would your answers to part b change?

Would you change your answer to part c if both offices are located in the same building? Why or why not?

What additional factors would you need to consider if one of the offices in part c was in Los Angeles and the other was located in Singapore?

February 28, 2012February 28, 2012

Budgeting Module

Question:
“Discuss the advantages and disadvantage of budget participation from the employer’s point of view and employee’s point of view?” Do you think participative budgeting often an effective tool? Why?

Remarks:
The assignment should contain approximately 1000 words in a typed format in ‘Times New Roman’ font, size 12 with 1.5 line spacing and page numbers.
Students are required to demonstrate their ability by producing in their own words. When using references and quotations to support your summary in the assignment, students must reference any ideas or data that are not their own. Any plagiarism from any books will be subject to a deduction of marks. Please write in short and clear!!

The assignment should consist of the following section, in order of appearance:
1) Assignment cover page.
2) Table of contents.
3) Introduction.
4) The body.
5) Conclusions.
6) Recommendations.
7) List of references and appendices (if any).

February 28, 2012

International financial manager

Please write a paper about the international financial manager at the company (OPEL). This is the individual who is in charge of international financial management at (OPEL). Also, describe the position they hold in the firm?
What is his or her background?
Discuss his or her approach to managing foreign risks? Give examples.
Be detailed and be specific but write no more than one page.

SLP 5 Assignment Expectations
• Continue to write about the MNE you selected in Module 1. eBay
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• Write 1 page, identifying and providing a profile of the international finance office of your firm.
• Research and provide illustrations of how your firm manages international finance and FX risk.
• List supporting references and cite sources.
• Use appropriate writing style APA.

February 27, 2012

Negotiation, Bargaining, and Conflict Resolution

The video clip you will view (see below) is a scene from American
Samoa: Paradise Lost? This classic description from the 1960s is
typical of Samoan society and its traditional political leadership
system. Note the chief was related to the people he governed. The
economic exchanges in the Samoan village all were supervised by the
chief. In turn, the village chief was responsible for the welfare of
his villagers. Displays of economic distribution, such as the feast
illustrated in the video clip, were important means for demonstrating
the benevolent power of the chief. When the American government sent
leaders to oversee this island nation, there were conflict between the
traditional village system of distribution and reciprocity and the
Western notions of how the government should operate.

Assignment:
Write a 1- page case analysis in which you respond to the following questions.

How did the traditional system of chiefly power reinforce the close
knit social system of village life?

How do the values of achievement and ascription operate in opposition
in some leadership situations?

What are the implications of this case for economic and political
conflict in the global community? Identify and discuss a similar case
from another region of the world.

To access the video clip:

Go to www.nu.edu

February 22, 2012

Blue Nile and Diamond Retailing

Throughout the entire case study, 3 question will be answered:

(1) What do you think of the fact that Blue Nile carries about 30,000 stones priced at $2,500 or higher while almost 60 percent of the products sold from the Tiffany Web site are priced around $200? Which of the two product categories is better suited to the online channel?

(2)What do you think of Tiffany’s decision to open smaller retail outlets, focusing on high-end products, to reach smaller affluent areas in the United States?

(3) Which of the three companies do you think was best structured to deal with the downturn in 2009? What advice would you give to each of the three companies regarding their strategy and structure to deal with the downturn in 2009?

The only 2 sections that need to be completed in the template is the INTRODUCTION and the BUSINESS SITUATION.

February 17, 2012February 22, 2012

Enterprise of small foreign trade problems and countermeasures

There are two parts to stage two of the assignment:
(a) Identify and produce a summary of the relevant academic theories and concepts that are useful to understanding your dispute or issue in more detail. These may be theories or concepts relating to international trade, international investment, international business strategy, international political economy, and so on. They may be taken from the academic literature on microeconomics, macroeconomics, political science or international business. There is no word limit in producing this summary, but a recommendation is made below. You should focus on making a clear summary of the theories/concepts and produce a statement describing how and in what way they are relevant to your chosen problem/issue.

(b) Review the impact of international political institutions, treaties or organizations on the problem or issue you have chosen, e.g. the WTO, IMF, World Bank, Regional Trade Agreement etc. Summarize the role they have to play here, the extent of their power or influence, the source of their power and influence, and any material impact they have had on the problem/issue so far.

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